An international research team led by Hiroki Shibuya at RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan has ...

Although heart cells and skin cells contain identical instructions for creating proteins encoded in their DNA, they're able ...

Advanced biotechnology repurposes two bacterial immune systems to correct large stretches of DNA. Human cells that have been edited with the new retron-based gene editing technology. Orange dots mark ...

Scientists at the University of Maryland have uncovered the genetic key behind a rare wheat variety that produces three grains where ordinary wheat grows just one.

They are weird, bald, subterranean rodents that look like sausages with teeth, and they have just revealed a genetic secret to long life. A new study of the bizarre naked mole rat shows that the ...

For visitors wandering among mastodon skeletons and other impressive remains from the Pleistocene epoch at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum, a non-descript piece of cranium with broken stubs of antlers ...

Calvin's diagnosis came after nearly two years of various testing Kate Todd Photography Klairissa and Mike welcomed their first baby after some pregnancy complications, but were excited to bring their ...

Snow leopards are at a high risk of extinction in the wild. Poaching and habitat destruction threaten the felines, which are native to the mountain ranges of Central and Asia. But a new study, ...

Genetic inheritance may sound straightforward: One gene causes one trait or a specific illness. When doctors use genetics, it's usually to try to identify a disease-causing gene to help guide ...

A research team has successfully engineered a japonica rice variety using CRISPR/Cas9 to simultaneously optimize plant ...